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‘Easy Rider’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 4K/HDR

SV Staff  |  Oct 10, 2019

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the counterculture classic Easy Rider with a new 4K digital release available for streaming or download.

The 1969 film about two freewheeling hippies on a crazy cross-country road trip has been restored from the original camera negative and encoded in Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR).

A time capsule featuring vintage “choppers,” the film stars Peter Fonda (Wyatt, a.k.a. Captain America) and Dennis Hopper (Billy) who meet Jack Nicholson (George Hanson) and other memorable characters on an eye-opening journey from Los Angeles to Florida. The release includes commentary by the late Dennis Hopper and a behind-the-scenes featurette.

Easy Rider is available in 4K through Vudu and FandangoNow for $7.99 and iTunes for $3.99.

The 50th anniversary 4K Blu-ray disc is slated for release December 2 and available for pre-order on blu-ray.com.

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Submitted by Billy on October 10, 2019 - 2:10pm

Interesting, no mention of a physical disc. Just the world we live in I guess. I hope they spent a long time on restoring this, because every copy I have ever seen was crummy. Of course , it was a grade B movie to begin with, so who knows the quality.

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Submitted by mtrot on October 10, 2019 - 9:02pm

Man, you're not kidding. I saw it was on TV recently and I thought it'd be cool to watch it again. Wow, it's just a terribly boring and vapid movie, with very poor production quality.

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Submitted by Billy on October 10, 2019 - 2:11pm

Man am I getting senile, I swear I didn't read about the December disc the first time! Sorry guys.

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